The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Mrs. CHARLES w. GUERNSEY is very ill.,
'over Barre street.
REV. Mr.. WRIGHT preached in Burling-
ton Sunday, in exchange with Rev. l.. G..
Ware.
MERCURY registered twenty-eight degrees
below zero in Montpelier village Monday
morning.
THERE will be no meeting of the Womans
Relief Corps until Friday evening, Feb
ruary 25th
CAPTAIN C. r. SUMMERS was last week
elected janitor of Odd Fellows hall for the
ensuing year.
REV. HOWARD f. HILL expects to con-
duct religious services in Wrightsville next
Sunday afternoon, commencing at half-past
two o'clock.
The Saturday night express train south,
which did not reach Montpelier until Sun
day afternoon, was delayed by the heavy
storm north of the Canada line.
II. l.. NoTT, proprietor of the Burlington
Stock and Petroleum Exchange, has recently
opened branch office in Montpelier, with
headquarters at the "old - Montpelier
House.
IT is expected that new church hymn
book will soon be adopted by Bethany So
ciety, to take the place of the " Sabbath
Hymn and Tune Book" which has been in
use for about thirty years.
THE genial, gentlemanly and generally
L. al,
ship in the store of George l.. Nichols to as
sumo a similar position in a Norwalk, CT,
wholesale clothing house.
AT the department convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps in Bennington last
Thursday Mrs. Amanda I. Newcomb was
elected department president and Mrs.
Margaret f. Carleton department treasurer.
THE officers of Brooks Post, G.. A. R., last
week received complete outfit of new arms
and equipments. They will uniform COM
plete before Memorial day, and it is said
that the members will also procure new
uniforms.
THE carnival number of the Burlington
Free Press is profusely illustrated and at
tractive publication. Winter sports are
illustrated by double-p page, full-page and
smaller cuts in striking manner, and the
whole is a creditable production.
MONTPELIER promises to be well repre-
sented at the Burlington carnival which
opened so favorably Monday, The number
of visitors from the capital will be largest
to-day and tomorrow, as these days offer
the strongest attractions of the week.
Mr.. T. G, EVANS, the popular and enter
prising advertising agent of Boston, has
just published the sixteenth edition of his
advertising handbook, which contains a
list of the most desirable advertising me-
diums in the United States and Canada.
julius II. BosTwIcK died at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, S. NJ. Walton, in
Montpelier on Sunday evening, aged eighty
two years. He was son of the late Arthur
Bostwck of Jericho, which was his home
for several years, but for the past twenty
two years he had been a respected citizen
of Montpelier.
THE condition of the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad, which was somewhat i'm
paired by the undue activity attendant upon
the accommodation of so many of the
Centra's trains during the last week, is
again normal and trains are running with
their wonted regularity, to the delight OF
local and through passengers.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelier
| (Vt) post-ohice February II, 1887
Marguerite Ducharme, John W. Basker,
! Mrs. Julia Emerson, Harry q. Cole,
| Eliza Robinson, Charles Z, Hammond
Miss Mary White, Joe Hannnt,
! Albert Buckner, j. Peter.
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised" and give the date
GEORGE w. WING. Postmaster.
FRIDAYS storm added some ten inches tC
the large amount of snow which the previous
thaws had failed to dispose of and the aggre
gate depth is now about thirty inches where
it has not drifted or blown away. The
storm was attended by high wind and
several trains were delayed then
" Halls train" due here at twenty minute,
to seven o'clock p. NJ, which lay in drift
near the junction for nearly four hours.
New songs, new sketches, new Jokes
new farces, new and special scenery and
mechanical effects and grand olio Of
mirth are some of the joys in store for al
who attend the performance of the Ow